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9 Chicago and lii.iiihiul ' wi vicixity-lnset s v'a rf ivi'ita g|___||bÃŸk iyrv'l bd weather with __________ iitaiiiniiii average 42 Chicago examiner *â– sunday Chicago december 6 1914 sunday price five cents vol xv no 23 a m czar's in in hum strike ht budapest german army dashes on in russia kaiser hurls heavy reinforce ments into poland and smashes on toward warsaw rus sians close in on cracow petrograd dec 5 â€” to-night's official statement says desperate engagements in front j of lowicz and particularly in the region of lodz and along the roads from the west toward petrokow continue on december 4 on the roadway between pobianlco and lask our armored automobiles by favor of the darkness fell upon a large col umn of the enemy dispersing it with machine gun are and artillery causing serious losses london dec 5 â€” the central news to-night received a dispatch from petrograd which states that tho germans have been reinforced at ilovo and at lowicz the germans have resumed the offensive in the fiercest fighting of the war they have started another smashing at tack with warsaw as its goal in the battles before lodz and pe trokow the fighting is proceeding most vigorously along a forty-mile fron at czenslochowa the germans are preparing for a siege the town has been turned into a fortress germans poir into poland the russian menace to austria hungary has assumed greater propor tions by reason of the occupation of bartefair hungary and the czar's army is moving on slowly in its prog ress toward budapest giving the austrians the necessity of waging war on the servians at the south and at the same time repelling the invad ers from the north the investment of przemysl gives the russians control of practically the whole of galicia and masses of fugitives are complicating the situa tion in vienna and budapest grand duke nicholas wired to pe troerrad to-day that the germans have rushed four army corps 160,000 men to the relief of the army battling at lodz from the west constant re ports are being received of german reinforcements from flanders and france separate divisions of cavalry add to the numbers of infantry the latest official reports from pe trograd reveal that the germans in poland now hold a zigzag line which begins at plock on the vistula and extends in a generally southerly di rection through tunbinnen kutno lowicz zgierz liutomierz lask and alor-g the east bank of the river warthe west of petrokow a distance of about 130 miles 80,000 are slain lowicz is the spearhead of their position and to that town the ger mans are clinging with desperate en ergy nortli and south of the posi tion they have filled gaps in the line wilh reinforcements brought from silesia and even from belgium and france the news indicates that they are planning a third general ad vance toward warsaw when two army corps were en trapped a eek near the railway junction of koloskl between lowicz pnrl lodz they cut their way to free dom by a succession of bayonet charges making fifteen rushes in eoiid formation before the russians gave way about 12,000 germans es caped but it is estimated that 30,000 killed wounded or captured ferfhal von hindendurg withdrew Â»*â€¢ lions of his force from fifteen to th'euty miles f>-om the points of their furthest advance these forces in trenched themselves and waited for reinforcements these operations were marked by alternate rear guard actions and counter attacks by the germans the whole forming a most sanguinary battle with no positive advantage to either sfde pri'pare for offensive military observers choose to be lieve that the germans will again be gin a dangerous offensive movement all the developments indicate the de termination of the germans to renew the fight events have forced them to stake the integrity of posen and silesia on a desperate offensive cam paign in poland in spite of valor and iron resolu tion the germans have not been able to pull the russians from east prus sia and they have not succeeded in diverting the russians from cracow they must win decisively along the vistula or submit to an invasion of one of their most prized provinces the general impression both in london and petrograd is that the lighting of the last few days in po land has been the most sanguinary summary of the war news in poland the germans have be gun a new advance upon warsaw while the russians are drawing their lines tighter about cracow and have entered hungary in a dash for budapest on the borders of alsace-lorraine the french apparently have made considerable progress they are making desperate efforts to sever the communications of the german force which has been holding st michel on the meuse for many weeks the germans are making desper jate efforts to hurl back the french iwho are fighting at the outer works of metz strassburg is menaced by air bombs and cannon in flanders the british in a des perate rally at dawn drove the ger mans from the trenches with bay onets from dixmude to the lys the battle of the ferryman's house was i jwon by the allies kaiser wilhelm is reported nar irowly to have escaped an air bomb lat breslau australian battleship is missing 19,000-ton australia reported lost by beriin turks shell british submarine berlin deo 5 by wireless â€” a british submarine tried to force a passage through the dardanelles to day says a dispatch from constanti nople to the frankfurter zeitung its presence was discovered however and apparently it was hit by shots fired from the turkish forts information given out by the ger man official press bureau says a re port received by the italian newspa per corriere delia sera declares the australian battle cruiser australia apparently is missing battle cruiser missing the australia is 19,200 tons 578 feet long 79 feet beam and has a mean draft of 27">i feet she was built at clydebank in 1912 and is ca pable of traveling twenty-six knots an hour the australia carried eight 12-inch guns sixteen 4-inch guns and three 21-inch torpedo tubes the australia was last reported in hawaiian waters last september cruiser ashore ix storm london dec 6 â€” the british crui ser venus ran ashore in a storm to day striking with full force the foremast and part of the bridge were carried away by an enormous sea packard motor head hurt is operated on new york dec s henry b joy of detroit president of the lincoln highway association and the packard motor car company is in roosevelt hospital he was operated on fri day by dr charles n dowd who re moved a blood clot on his head while driving his car through ohio alone at night the car struck a water breaker throwing him against the windshield and cutting his scalp girl seeks to end her life on man's grave widow among mourners who rush to mary gregg's side after pistol shot earth to earth ashes to ashes and dust to dust the clods rattled down upon the coffin of richard raymond levis and as the attendants of oakwoods cemetery filled up the grave the mourners turned away mother i want to go back to the grave a moment said miss mary gregg and turned back mrs gregg and her niece miss ma rie gregg walked slowly on expect ing the girl to rejoin them instead a moment later they heard a pistol shot and they ran back to find the girl lying across the grave a bullet under her heart and a revolver be side her may survive bullet the widow of the man on whose grave she had tried to kill herself was among those who ran to her amid the wildest excitement the mourners left their limousines and the girl was taken to the washington park ohspital the surgeons say she may live nobody who knew would explain the tragedy mrs gregg and her niece disappeared after the girl had been taken to the hospital they live at 5440 michigan avenue miss gregg was conscious when de tectives located her at the hospital all she would say was i loved a man â€” he is dead now don't as me hia uÂ»Â»e or any thing about him 1 may tell yon later but not now i intended to kill myself bnt not in the ceme tery i shot on thc impulse of the moment i wanted to die then but now i wnnt to live she could not tell why she had taken the revolver with her to a funeral if she had not meant to use it there levis son a prominent mason called on the officers of his lodge tc aid him in suppressing the story and even the police were not told of the shooting for three hours we don't know her i am sure that miss gregg did not know my father said young levis last night i never heard of her be fore and i cannot understand her act at all levis could not explain why if the families were not even acquainted miss gregg her mother and her cous in had gone to attend his father's funeral richard raymond levis lived with his wife and son at 2058 west one hundred and third street he was president of the elaborated ready roofing company at 4417 wentworth street he was killed wednesday when a monon fast train struck his automobile women start boom for owens as mayor mrs john emerson roberts of the Illinois women's democratic league announced yesterday that a mass meeting of women will be held soor to launch a boom for former county jiy-ge owens for mayor others behind the boom are dr lucy waite of oak park mrs w h stuart and mrs susan jenks said mrs koberts we believe judge owens will be the choice of Chicago for the mayor alty we know the women will sup port him tesla invents wireless to light ocean new system he says will make atlantic steamer lanes safe from collisions new york dee 5 â€” 1 have in vented and patented an apparatus for transmitting electrical energy with out wires which will not only revolu tionize the present wireless systems but will make lt possible to cast light from shore that wil make the at lantic steamship lanes safe declared nikolai tesla on his return to-night from washington where the inven tion was patented he said that his apparatus would give the wireless unlimited sending power and messages around the world would be a matter of course with a plant in the azores he said he could project light rays over the atlantic ocean jiminez inaugurated san domingo chief washington dec 5 â€” the seating of general jlminez in the presidential chair of santo domingo took place to-day amid the booming of cannon in the capital city according to offi cial dispatches to the state depart ) ment the supreme court of santo domingo previously met and declared the election valid whereupon the oath of office was administered to jimi nez watchful waiting has won there also said secretary bryan when he announced the result of the election proceedings which had been largely supervised by agents of the state de partment as to whether the american forces would be immediately withdrawn he replied not precipitately lost on utah desert crawls to safety thompson utah dec s.â€”famish ing crawling on his hands and knees and close to madness samuel h baker a prominent denver attorney and real estate and mining broker arrived here to-day after having been lost five days in the utah desert baker and m j gill of denver had gone to salt valley twenty-two miles southeast of here to inspect some radium properties baker pro vided only with a light lunch hired a horse and cart and set out alone across the desert at nightfall he reached a sheep camp and turned the horse out to graze the animal re turned to thompson and baker lost his way lindsey exonerated lays plot to beast denver colo dec 5 â€” branded by judge ben b lindsey as another attempt of the beast to get him charges preferred by the ministerial alliance of denver that the judge was guilty of liberating men accused by young girls were dismissed to day by the fire and police board the charges were filed by e k whitehead secretary of the state hu mane society which lindsey declares is maintained by a clique of million aires which has tried to obliterate him kaiser safeguarded by ancient amulets paris dec 5 â€” the kaiser has worn the famous hohenzollern toad stone ring since the war began ac cording to lavie parisienne the talisman which is supposed to tide the hohenzollerns over times of cri sis fell from a toad's mouth says the legend on the bed of john sigis mund of brandenburg and ever since has been handed down to the reigning princes with the crown another of the kaiser's amulets is the four leaved shamrock worn by his grand father in the war of 1870 municipal dance prices cut to 25c mayor harrison yesterday ordered a reduction in admission prices to the city-controlled dances from 15 cents for each person with extra charge for checking wraps to 25 cents for the admittance of each couple and the checking of belongings mrs leonora z meder said last night that the reduction was made so many more might enjoy the dances and that the authorities felt the dances were go ing to be so successful that the city could afford to give them for less new judges ill take office oath at homes judge-elect henry horner of the probate court yesterday took the oath of office at his residence he is ill with grippe and county clerk robert m . sweitzer went to him and administered the oath the new judge of the county court thomas f scul ly also took the oath at his home be cause he has undergone an operation on his eye harrison can't run again wife won't let him and that settles it for the mayor admits she's his political boss carter h harrison will never serve a sixth term as mayor of Chicago if mrs harrison has her way and she said last night she was the boss of the family mayor harrison wants to run again he admits but he told the county democracy yesterday that mrs harri son held his promise not to be a can didate again and that she is holding him io it i certainly am and i intend to hold him hard and fast said mrs harrison why don't you want him to be mayor i want to enjoy him myself just a little bit she said he's so devoted to city business that i hardly know him any more keeps card index why i have to jot down on a little card memoranda of the things i want to talk to him about â€” no 1 no 2 no 3 and so on it's harder for me to get a few moments alone with him than it is for a man who wants a job i think his family needs him a little the city's had him long enough he never gets home until after 6 o'clock at night and he's usually too tired to talk i don't care what the politicians want i want him myself i wouldn't have let him run four years ago if he hadn't promised me he wouldn't run again and i'm going to hold him to that promise what are your plan when he gets out of office my plans are just to have a nice long talk with him â€” the first one in four years wipe controls situation mayor harrison told the democrats who waited on him that he hadn't made up his mind whether he would be a candidate again and then he admitted that his wife controlled the situation the possibility of service is about all that is attractive to me about another term he said but there are big things to be done and i'd like to have a hand in them i'll use my best blarney on mrs harrison and see what she says miles j devine spokesman for the 2,000 members of the county democ racy who jammed the mayor's of fice and overflowed into the corri dors told the mayor they wanted his promise to run or they would hold a big demonstration january 1 in the seventh regiment armory to force him into line mrs carter h harrison admittedly the *** mayor's boss who says she won't let him run for mayor again because she wants to have time for a long talk with him the first one in four years but i'll blarney her and see what i can do says harrison former judge ennis breaks out of jail new york dec 5 â€” the ludlow street jail colony lost its most dis tinguished member to-day alfred ennis formerly justice of the su preme court of indiana no longer dwells there after considerable de lay he gave bond for 1,000 with the american surety company as secur ity judge ennis was arrested last november on the request of his wife in her suit for separation to insure his appearance in court when the case comes up for trial he is sev enty years old she is twenty-seven they were married last may henry ford to feed detroit's unemployed detroit dec 5 â€” lodging and breakfast for the homeless unem ployed will be provided by henry ford at the new ford hospital cots for about fifty will be available next monday but ford hopes to care for many more this winter ford be lieves the prosperity of the ford au tomobile company's employes drew many unemployed to detroit i pro pose to care for some of these men who would work but cannot he said edwin c.brown long time rail chief dies detroit mich dec 5 â€” edwin c brown a long-time prominent rail road official who rose from baggage man on the Chicago & northwestern railroad to general superintendent of the michigan central railroad and assistant to president henry b led yard of that company died here to day at the age of eighty-three years he had been a resident of detroit thirty-four years surviving are his widow his son frank s brown of michigan city and two daughters portuguese cabinet resigns in a body london dec 5 â€” a dispatch to the exchange telegraph company from lisbon says the portuguese cabinet resigned to-day in a bodt historic ship constellation lost in storm washixoton dec 5 â€” the united states frigate constellation hero of many wars is adrift and in danger in a northeast storm near thimble shoals off the virginia coast the constellation was on its way from washington to newport a dispatch received by secretary daniels this afternoon said the vessel had broken away from the tug ontario which was towing it tugs are standing by norfolk va dec s driven by a seventy-mile northeast gale part of norfolk's business section near the water front and many streets are in undated at old point comfort ar.d other sections the tide is the highest in years at ocean view and virginia beach high seas beat down bulkheads and many persons fled from their cot tages the water from hampton roads overflowed the seawall at old point comfort and the plaza surrounding the chamberlain hotel is under three feet of water boats are being used to transport many citizens to and from their places of business here the bay schooner william donnelly went down in the storm last night pear thimble shoals lightship two members of her crew were drowned her master was cast upon the beach after spending ten hours at sea on a plank an unknown schooner is reported in distress near cape henry once waiter now he's a president paris dec 6 â€” general gutierrez elected mexican president at aguas callentes was a cafe waiter at oviedo spain six years ago so at least say i the paris journal police smile while dancers defy cafe law promptly at midnight floor space was cleared in all the loop cafes and restaurants last night and the patrons were invited to dance and aid the restaurant keepers protective association test the ordinance prohib iting dancing in cafes passed several months ago the invitation was accepted with cheers and the floors were well filled before the first alluring tango piece was finished timid couples waited several dances until they saw that nothing happened to their more ven turesome companions the police did not attempt to inter fere with the merry making but con fined themselves to observing and taking notes for future reference what is to be done will be deter mined by the city law department we do not mean to defy the ordi nance or the police at all said j c con-way hutchins manager of he morrison hotel we simply want to find out what is what there is dan cing in the cafes outside of the loop every night while inside the loop it is forbidden somebody is wrong we want to know who it is among the cafes which permitted dancing were vogelsang's boston oyster house rector's the states and north american marie corelli hurt in auto accident london dec 5 â€” marie corelli the novelist who is staying at claridge's hotel met with a painful accident thi.s afternoon while motoring and is reported to have suffered rather se rious injuries on the head jl halpin and tobin are ousted by the mayor detectives are indictee on bertsche's story ex-sergeant o'brien is named egan bill drawn but not voted the detective bureau is a den of thieves and the higher you go the rottener it gets â€” statement by state's attorney no.ine at the beginning of thc crime investigation his proof i indictments were returned yester-1 day by the grand jury against â€” john j halptn captain of the detective bureau at the time the statement was made and active head of the detective force from the time inspector nicholas hunt resigned under charges until he halpin was transferred to the fillmore street station a fev weeks ago at the request of state's attorney hoyne three charges of bribery and three of operating a confidence game john h tobin lieutenant at the detective bureau under halpin and one of the men whom barney bertsche caused to be arrested after the shooting in randolph street between bertsche and de tective sergeants egan and mon aghan three charges of operat ing a confidence game walter o'brien former de tective sergeant detailed from halpin's office to watch clairvoy ants named by bertsche as the collector for the officers later discharged from the police force by the civil service commission three charges of operating a con dence game indictments have been drawn but not returned against â€” william j egan one of the participants in the randolph street shooting affray three charges of operating a confidence game lieutenant tobin three addi tional charges of bribery halpin and tobin ousted in half hour within halt an hour of the timo the indictments were formally re turned lieutenant tobin and cap tain halpin had been suspended in a general order issued by chief of police james gleason on orders from mayor harriso:i the order was given out by the chief without com ment it read special order no 257 the following are hereby sus pended pending investigation of charges captain john j halpin commanding the fif teenth district lieutenant john j tobin of the seven teenth district this order takes effect at once the capiases for the arrest of tl<3 indicted men were not issued how ever captain halpin and former sergeant o'brien called state's at torney hoyne by telephone said they would have their bonds ar ranged by monday and asked his permission to appear voluntarily at that time which was granted the bonds for the men were fixed arbitrarily by the grand jurors as follows captain halpin six charges 5,000 each 30,000 lieutenant tobin three charges 5,000 each 15,000 walter o'brien three charges 5,000 each 15,000 the state's attorney did lot indi i ii m continued on 4th page 6th column to-days examiner is a big xmas advertising paper almost every page of to-day's paper is filled with special offer ings for christmas time it would be real interesting to make a list of the hundreds of different articles advertised in this newspaper the wide range of articles will include almost everything that is going to be bought at this season of the year if you will conscientiously look over to-day's paper carefully you will solve all christmas buying problems the merchants have made this a complete advertising issue in every respect and it has cost them thousands of dollars to carry their message to you all the time you spend in reading to-day's advertising columns will be time well spent don't only read the advertisements that catch your eye but sit down and make an intelligent study of the advertising columns and you will find out how easily all of your christmas problems will be solved just a word to the merchants if there are any who have not an announcement in the big sunday examiner to-day remember that con siderable over half a million persons bought to-day's ex aminer and buy it every sunday and that a quarter of a million persons will buy the examiner every day this week and daily from now until christmas and keep on doing so the circulation of the Chicago examiner both sunday and daily affords the very best means of reaching the best group of purchasers in Chicago you should make arrangements to do some good strong advertising from now until christmas the examine readers are always looking for the best places where to buy anil form the best part of the buying public in Chicago and surrounding country

9 Chicago and lii.iiihiul ' wi vicixity-lnset s v'a rf ivi'ita g|___||bÃŸk iyrv'l bd weather with __________ iitaiiiniiii average 42 Chicago examiner *â– sunday Chicago december 6 1914 sunday price five cents vol xv no 23 a m czar's in in hum strike ht budapest german army dashes on in russia kaiser hurls heavy reinforce ments into poland and smashes on toward warsaw rus sians close in on cracow petrograd dec 5 â€” to-night's official statement says desperate engagements in front j of lowicz and particularly in the region of lodz and along the roads from the west toward petrokow continue on december 4 on the roadway between pobianlco and lask our armored automobiles by favor of the darkness fell upon a large col umn of the enemy dispersing it with machine gun are and artillery causing serious losses london dec 5 â€” the central news to-night received a dispatch from petrograd which states that tho germans have been reinforced at ilovo and at lowicz the germans have resumed the offensive in the fiercest fighting of the war they have started another smashing at tack with warsaw as its goal in the battles before lodz and pe trokow the fighting is proceeding most vigorously along a forty-mile fron at czenslochowa the germans are preparing for a siege the town has been turned into a fortress germans poir into poland the russian menace to austria hungary has assumed greater propor tions by reason of the occupation of bartefair hungary and the czar's army is moving on slowly in its prog ress toward budapest giving the austrians the necessity of waging war on the servians at the south and at the same time repelling the invad ers from the north the investment of przemysl gives the russians control of practically the whole of galicia and masses of fugitives are complicating the situa tion in vienna and budapest grand duke nicholas wired to pe troerrad to-day that the germans have rushed four army corps 160,000 men to the relief of the army battling at lodz from the west constant re ports are being received of german reinforcements from flanders and france separate divisions of cavalry add to the numbers of infantry the latest official reports from pe trograd reveal that the germans in poland now hold a zigzag line which begins at plock on the vistula and extends in a generally southerly di rection through tunbinnen kutno lowicz zgierz liutomierz lask and alor-g the east bank of the river warthe west of petrokow a distance of about 130 miles 80,000 are slain lowicz is the spearhead of their position and to that town the ger mans are clinging with desperate en ergy nortli and south of the posi tion they have filled gaps in the line wilh reinforcements brought from silesia and even from belgium and france the news indicates that they are planning a third general ad vance toward warsaw when two army corps were en trapped a eek near the railway junction of koloskl between lowicz pnrl lodz they cut their way to free dom by a succession of bayonet charges making fifteen rushes in eoiid formation before the russians gave way about 12,000 germans es caped but it is estimated that 30,000 killed wounded or captured ferfhal von hindendurg withdrew Â»*â€¢ lions of his force from fifteen to th'euty miles f>-om the points of their furthest advance these forces in trenched themselves and waited for reinforcements these operations were marked by alternate rear guard actions and counter attacks by the germans the whole forming a most sanguinary battle with no positive advantage to either sfde pri'pare for offensive military observers choose to be lieve that the germans will again be gin a dangerous offensive movement all the developments indicate the de termination of the germans to renew the fight events have forced them to stake the integrity of posen and silesia on a desperate offensive cam paign in poland in spite of valor and iron resolu tion the germans have not been able to pull the russians from east prus sia and they have not succeeded in diverting the russians from cracow they must win decisively along the vistula or submit to an invasion of one of their most prized provinces the general impression both in london and petrograd is that the lighting of the last few days in po land has been the most sanguinary summary of the war news in poland the germans have be gun a new advance upon warsaw while the russians are drawing their lines tighter about cracow and have entered hungary in a dash for budapest on the borders of alsace-lorraine the french apparently have made considerable progress they are making desperate efforts to sever the communications of the german force which has been holding st michel on the meuse for many weeks the germans are making desper jate efforts to hurl back the french iwho are fighting at the outer works of metz strassburg is menaced by air bombs and cannon in flanders the british in a des perate rally at dawn drove the ger mans from the trenches with bay onets from dixmude to the lys the battle of the ferryman's house was i jwon by the allies kaiser wilhelm is reported nar irowly to have escaped an air bomb lat breslau australian battleship is missing 19,000-ton australia reported lost by beriin turks shell british submarine berlin deo 5 by wireless â€” a british submarine tried to force a passage through the dardanelles to day says a dispatch from constanti nople to the frankfurter zeitung its presence was discovered however and apparently it was hit by shots fired from the turkish forts information given out by the ger man official press bureau says a re port received by the italian newspa per corriere delia sera declares the australian battle cruiser australia apparently is missing battle cruiser missing the australia is 19,200 tons 578 feet long 79 feet beam and has a mean draft of 27">i feet she was built at clydebank in 1912 and is ca pable of traveling twenty-six knots an hour the australia carried eight 12-inch guns sixteen 4-inch guns and three 21-inch torpedo tubes the australia was last reported in hawaiian waters last september cruiser ashore ix storm london dec 6 â€” the british crui ser venus ran ashore in a storm to day striking with full force the foremast and part of the bridge were carried away by an enormous sea packard motor head hurt is operated on new york dec s henry b joy of detroit president of the lincoln highway association and the packard motor car company is in roosevelt hospital he was operated on fri day by dr charles n dowd who re moved a blood clot on his head while driving his car through ohio alone at night the car struck a water breaker throwing him against the windshield and cutting his scalp girl seeks to end her life on man's grave widow among mourners who rush to mary gregg's side after pistol shot earth to earth ashes to ashes and dust to dust the clods rattled down upon the coffin of richard raymond levis and as the attendants of oakwoods cemetery filled up the grave the mourners turned away mother i want to go back to the grave a moment said miss mary gregg and turned back mrs gregg and her niece miss ma rie gregg walked slowly on expect ing the girl to rejoin them instead a moment later they heard a pistol shot and they ran back to find the girl lying across the grave a bullet under her heart and a revolver be side her may survive bullet the widow of the man on whose grave she had tried to kill herself was among those who ran to her amid the wildest excitement the mourners left their limousines and the girl was taken to the washington park ohspital the surgeons say she may live nobody who knew would explain the tragedy mrs gregg and her niece disappeared after the girl had been taken to the hospital they live at 5440 michigan avenue miss gregg was conscious when de tectives located her at the hospital all she would say was i loved a man â€” he is dead now don't as me hia uÂ»Â»e or any thing about him 1 may tell yon later but not now i intended to kill myself bnt not in the ceme tery i shot on thc impulse of the moment i wanted to die then but now i wnnt to live she could not tell why she had taken the revolver with her to a funeral if she had not meant to use it there levis son a prominent mason called on the officers of his lodge tc aid him in suppressing the story and even the police were not told of the shooting for three hours we don't know her i am sure that miss gregg did not know my father said young levis last night i never heard of her be fore and i cannot understand her act at all levis could not explain why if the families were not even acquainted miss gregg her mother and her cous in had gone to attend his father's funeral richard raymond levis lived with his wife and son at 2058 west one hundred and third street he was president of the elaborated ready roofing company at 4417 wentworth street he was killed wednesday when a monon fast train struck his automobile women start boom for owens as mayor mrs john emerson roberts of the Illinois women's democratic league announced yesterday that a mass meeting of women will be held soor to launch a boom for former county jiy-ge owens for mayor others behind the boom are dr lucy waite of oak park mrs w h stuart and mrs susan jenks said mrs koberts we believe judge owens will be the choice of Chicago for the mayor alty we know the women will sup port him tesla invents wireless to light ocean new system he says will make atlantic steamer lanes safe from collisions new york dee 5 â€” 1 have in vented and patented an apparatus for transmitting electrical energy with out wires which will not only revolu tionize the present wireless systems but will make lt possible to cast light from shore that wil make the at lantic steamship lanes safe declared nikolai tesla on his return to-night from washington where the inven tion was patented he said that his apparatus would give the wireless unlimited sending power and messages around the world would be a matter of course with a plant in the azores he said he could project light rays over the atlantic ocean jiminez inaugurated san domingo chief washington dec 5 â€” the seating of general jlminez in the presidential chair of santo domingo took place to-day amid the booming of cannon in the capital city according to offi cial dispatches to the state depart ) ment the supreme court of santo domingo previously met and declared the election valid whereupon the oath of office was administered to jimi nez watchful waiting has won there also said secretary bryan when he announced the result of the election proceedings which had been largely supervised by agents of the state de partment as to whether the american forces would be immediately withdrawn he replied not precipitately lost on utah desert crawls to safety thompson utah dec s.â€”famish ing crawling on his hands and knees and close to madness samuel h baker a prominent denver attorney and real estate and mining broker arrived here to-day after having been lost five days in the utah desert baker and m j gill of denver had gone to salt valley twenty-two miles southeast of here to inspect some radium properties baker pro vided only with a light lunch hired a horse and cart and set out alone across the desert at nightfall he reached a sheep camp and turned the horse out to graze the animal re turned to thompson and baker lost his way lindsey exonerated lays plot to beast denver colo dec 5 â€” branded by judge ben b lindsey as another attempt of the beast to get him charges preferred by the ministerial alliance of denver that the judge was guilty of liberating men accused by young girls were dismissed to day by the fire and police board the charges were filed by e k whitehead secretary of the state hu mane society which lindsey declares is maintained by a clique of million aires which has tried to obliterate him kaiser safeguarded by ancient amulets paris dec 5 â€” the kaiser has worn the famous hohenzollern toad stone ring since the war began ac cording to lavie parisienne the talisman which is supposed to tide the hohenzollerns over times of cri sis fell from a toad's mouth says the legend on the bed of john sigis mund of brandenburg and ever since has been handed down to the reigning princes with the crown another of the kaiser's amulets is the four leaved shamrock worn by his grand father in the war of 1870 municipal dance prices cut to 25c mayor harrison yesterday ordered a reduction in admission prices to the city-controlled dances from 15 cents for each person with extra charge for checking wraps to 25 cents for the admittance of each couple and the checking of belongings mrs leonora z meder said last night that the reduction was made so many more might enjoy the dances and that the authorities felt the dances were go ing to be so successful that the city could afford to give them for less new judges ill take office oath at homes judge-elect henry horner of the probate court yesterday took the oath of office at his residence he is ill with grippe and county clerk robert m . sweitzer went to him and administered the oath the new judge of the county court thomas f scul ly also took the oath at his home be cause he has undergone an operation on his eye harrison can't run again wife won't let him and that settles it for the mayor admits she's his political boss carter h harrison will never serve a sixth term as mayor of Chicago if mrs harrison has her way and she said last night she was the boss of the family mayor harrison wants to run again he admits but he told the county democracy yesterday that mrs harri son held his promise not to be a can didate again and that she is holding him io it i certainly am and i intend to hold him hard and fast said mrs harrison why don't you want him to be mayor i want to enjoy him myself just a little bit she said he's so devoted to city business that i hardly know him any more keeps card index why i have to jot down on a little card memoranda of the things i want to talk to him about â€” no 1 no 2 no 3 and so on it's harder for me to get a few moments alone with him than it is for a man who wants a job i think his family needs him a little the city's had him long enough he never gets home until after 6 o'clock at night and he's usually too tired to talk i don't care what the politicians want i want him myself i wouldn't have let him run four years ago if he hadn't promised me he wouldn't run again and i'm going to hold him to that promise what are your plan when he gets out of office my plans are just to have a nice long talk with him â€” the first one in four years wipe controls situation mayor harrison told the democrats who waited on him that he hadn't made up his mind whether he would be a candidate again and then he admitted that his wife controlled the situation the possibility of service is about all that is attractive to me about another term he said but there are big things to be done and i'd like to have a hand in them i'll use my best blarney on mrs harrison and see what she says miles j devine spokesman for the 2,000 members of the county democ racy who jammed the mayor's of fice and overflowed into the corri dors told the mayor they wanted his promise to run or they would hold a big demonstration january 1 in the seventh regiment armory to force him into line mrs carter h harrison admittedly the *** mayor's boss who says she won't let him run for mayor again because she wants to have time for a long talk with him the first one in four years but i'll blarney her and see what i can do says harrison former judge ennis breaks out of jail new york dec 5 â€” the ludlow street jail colony lost its most dis tinguished member to-day alfred ennis formerly justice of the su preme court of indiana no longer dwells there after considerable de lay he gave bond for 1,000 with the american surety company as secur ity judge ennis was arrested last november on the request of his wife in her suit for separation to insure his appearance in court when the case comes up for trial he is sev enty years old she is twenty-seven they were married last may henry ford to feed detroit's unemployed detroit dec 5 â€” lodging and breakfast for the homeless unem ployed will be provided by henry ford at the new ford hospital cots for about fifty will be available next monday but ford hopes to care for many more this winter ford be lieves the prosperity of the ford au tomobile company's employes drew many unemployed to detroit i pro pose to care for some of these men who would work but cannot he said edwin c.brown long time rail chief dies detroit mich dec 5 â€” edwin c brown a long-time prominent rail road official who rose from baggage man on the Chicago & northwestern railroad to general superintendent of the michigan central railroad and assistant to president henry b led yard of that company died here to day at the age of eighty-three years he had been a resident of detroit thirty-four years surviving are his widow his son frank s brown of michigan city and two daughters portuguese cabinet resigns in a body london dec 5 â€” a dispatch to the exchange telegraph company from lisbon says the portuguese cabinet resigned to-day in a bodt historic ship constellation lost in storm washixoton dec 5 â€” the united states frigate constellation hero of many wars is adrift and in danger in a northeast storm near thimble shoals off the virginia coast the constellation was on its way from washington to newport a dispatch received by secretary daniels this afternoon said the vessel had broken away from the tug ontario which was towing it tugs are standing by norfolk va dec s driven by a seventy-mile northeast gale part of norfolk's business section near the water front and many streets are in undated at old point comfort ar.d other sections the tide is the highest in years at ocean view and virginia beach high seas beat down bulkheads and many persons fled from their cot tages the water from hampton roads overflowed the seawall at old point comfort and the plaza surrounding the chamberlain hotel is under three feet of water boats are being used to transport many citizens to and from their places of business here the bay schooner william donnelly went down in the storm last night pear thimble shoals lightship two members of her crew were drowned her master was cast upon the beach after spending ten hours at sea on a plank an unknown schooner is reported in distress near cape henry once waiter now he's a president paris dec 6 â€” general gutierrez elected mexican president at aguas callentes was a cafe waiter at oviedo spain six years ago so at least say i the paris journal police smile while dancers defy cafe law promptly at midnight floor space was cleared in all the loop cafes and restaurants last night and the patrons were invited to dance and aid the restaurant keepers protective association test the ordinance prohib iting dancing in cafes passed several months ago the invitation was accepted with cheers and the floors were well filled before the first alluring tango piece was finished timid couples waited several dances until they saw that nothing happened to their more ven turesome companions the police did not attempt to inter fere with the merry making but con fined themselves to observing and taking notes for future reference what is to be done will be deter mined by the city law department we do not mean to defy the ordi nance or the police at all said j c con-way hutchins manager of he morrison hotel we simply want to find out what is what there is dan cing in the cafes outside of the loop every night while inside the loop it is forbidden somebody is wrong we want to know who it is among the cafes which permitted dancing were vogelsang's boston oyster house rector's the states and north american marie corelli hurt in auto accident london dec 5 â€” marie corelli the novelist who is staying at claridge's hotel met with a painful accident thi.s afternoon while motoring and is reported to have suffered rather se rious injuries on the head jl halpin and tobin are ousted by the mayor detectives are indictee on bertsche's story ex-sergeant o'brien is named egan bill drawn but not voted the detective bureau is a den of thieves and the higher you go the rottener it gets â€” statement by state's attorney no.ine at the beginning of thc crime investigation his proof i indictments were returned yester-1 day by the grand jury against â€” john j halptn captain of the detective bureau at the time the statement was made and active head of the detective force from the time inspector nicholas hunt resigned under charges until he halpin was transferred to the fillmore street station a fev weeks ago at the request of state's attorney hoyne three charges of bribery and three of operating a confidence game john h tobin lieutenant at the detective bureau under halpin and one of the men whom barney bertsche caused to be arrested after the shooting in randolph street between bertsche and de tective sergeants egan and mon aghan three charges of operat ing a confidence game walter o'brien former de tective sergeant detailed from halpin's office to watch clairvoy ants named by bertsche as the collector for the officers later discharged from the police force by the civil service commission three charges of operating a con dence game indictments have been drawn but not returned against â€” william j egan one of the participants in the randolph street shooting affray three charges of operating a confidence game lieutenant tobin three addi tional charges of bribery halpin and tobin ousted in half hour within halt an hour of the timo the indictments were formally re turned lieutenant tobin and cap tain halpin had been suspended in a general order issued by chief of police james gleason on orders from mayor harriso:i the order was given out by the chief without com ment it read special order no 257 the following are hereby sus pended pending investigation of charges captain john j halpin commanding the fif teenth district lieutenant john j tobin of the seven teenth district this order takes effect at once the capiases for the arrest of tl<3 indicted men were not issued how ever captain halpin and former sergeant o'brien called state's at torney hoyne by telephone said they would have their bonds ar ranged by monday and asked his permission to appear voluntarily at that time which was granted the bonds for the men were fixed arbitrarily by the grand jurors as follows captain halpin six charges 5,000 each 30,000 lieutenant tobin three charges 5,000 each 15,000 walter o'brien three charges 5,000 each 15,000 the state's attorney did lot indi i ii m continued on 4th page 6th column to-days examiner is a big xmas advertising paper almost every page of to-day's paper is filled with special offer ings for christmas time it would be real interesting to make a list of the hundreds of different articles advertised in this newspaper the wide range of articles will 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